The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-11-02


for Mercy fer Himself, Should Grant it to
His Neishbors.
Harness your forgiveness to the sun
set, If you don't forgive your enemies
you won't cone rear enough to the har-
Dor of Heaven to see the ightship, " said
Dr.. Talmage, addressing some 5000
people in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on
Sunday morning.
"Oh, let not tie sun go down on your
wrath" he continued Don't wait till
sos this evening, when the sun sets to
forgive, but do it at the meridian. Very
many people are troubled with insomnia.
Few can sleep peacefully IRON 10 at
night till the next morning. I'll give
you IN unfailing recipe for wakefulness.
Think over ali the wrongs that have been
done you by people, then write long
letter about it; take out of their pigeon
holes all the mean things you know about
your enemies, then &C to sleep if you
can; lie on your. back and you'll have q
nightmare.
MY friends, it is best to put a bound
on your animosities. VIII you let the
man who robbed you come and bend
over your pillow? Why not fence him
of with the golden bars of sunset? Why
let these thoughts disturb your slumbers?
The fact is there are thousands of men
and women who let their thoughts de-
stroy their physical haalth. Many a man
carries beneath his vest gnawing ami
mostly. There are hundreds of thou
sands of families where there is the
greatest need of spirit OF forgiveness.
By the memory OF your fathers and
mothers grave be reconciled.
DR.. Talmage related case of faith
cure that. he witnessed in England, where
the use Of a woman's arm, that had been
useless for years, was restored to her IN
presence of q number of people. ''Since
then" said he, 81 believe God can do
anything. II a man is ever SO crooked
with hate for fellow being, God can
straighten him out. Lay hold Of Al
mighty God and he'll help you. History
tells OF man who hated his father so
much that he burned his body after he
died, then took the ashes and put them
in sacks and tied half the sacks to eagles
that few east, and half to others that
flew west,
:sAnother reason why we should for
give," said the preacher, sis that We
may not live to see another day. Most
people die between II at night and 3 IN
the morning. Something in the atmos-
phere seems to relax the body from the
soul at that time. They are apt to go
out during the darkest hours of the
night, and Heaven, always bright, is
brighter then when they enter it. Oh,
in that dark night, when re leave this
world, our great plea will be mercy.
What plight our souls will be in if ne,
come unforgiving!
81 know Of geSling more 6firrng
than ts:d t1s discovery at Pompeii Of that
soldier who had been on guard LOO
wears, standing with hand on sword, hel.
net on head, at the post of duty, when
others in the doomed city we're flying
for their lives. We want to beou guard
for God, true here and true there. I
don't suppose I'm much more of 8 COW
ard than other people, but tell you
plainly l could not sleep tonight unless
I could shake hands with any one on
earth"
eff man won't be reconciled you
give in to him. sOh,' says some woman,
4 can't forgive her; she's Gone too much;
she's too hateful; it's no use; I cans for
give her and I WON'T My sister. you
can if you try. 4 man says: That fell
low started those storiesss IL the neWspa-
pers about me; he's too mean for eny-
thing; I'll gel even with him; III make
him squirm.' Better resign that feeling,
nv friend. Bat, says some one in the
gallery, you don't know what I've got
to bear or you wouldn't talk that way
ssThen you make me think of the little
girl who was helping her father on
moving day. The father put q large
package in her arms, then piled on
article after article till stranger, who
was passing, said: Hold on! you are
putting too much OF load on that little
girl. The child, looking up askance at
tie stranger, said: Father knows how
much can carry and our Father IN
Heaven knows how much We can carry.
"Another reason why we ought to
ally the subhmest action with the
sublimest scene in nature. It's delight
fu! to have some old place, old tree, old
room OF old gate associated With some
action. Now, D man, associate the sun
set with unlimited forgiveness OF all
enemies. If you fail at first, go right
on. Shakespeare wrote seven plays be-
fore he wrote Hamlet and twenty-eignt
before he wrote Macbeth. The man
or woman least to blame is generally sde
one to take the first step toward recon-
citation. Oh. man, take that step, 1t
will make you measure three inches more
around the chest, your respiration Will
be better, aye, it will make you more
ike God himself.
ssHarness your forgiveness to the sun
set. You've heard about the sunset OF
the Cordilleras, in the Apenines and
Italy; but there is finer one to be seen
when you throw all your animosltles II
and let the horses of fire trample them
out, the chariots OF fire rcll over them,
the billows Of fire o'erwheim them. Gods
greatest achievement is this sunset; your
greatest, forgiveness.
::Iou never saw two sunsets alike, and
think that if God can afford to hang
over the wall CT Heaven more master
pieces Of natural art than al the ltahan
and Venetian galleries contain he can
take good care OF US. Il God be for US
who can be against US? So the sunset
of earth is the sunrise Of Heaven"
Scene as Funeral.
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